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Hi all, so usually I do kind of hobby stuff, and never program anything that I think would be very usefull besides giving me practice in programming. So now I've decided I do have use for one program that would be really interesting and a very good learning experience to program and that is some security software.
I don't really want code just some suggestions, I know that it will require working with the shell in some sort, editing the registry and I'm sure it would take some other things as well.
But that isn't the explanation that you guys need so here goes. What I wish to do is I want to create a program that when I install it, it will allow me to select files on my computer to lock access. When a person goes to launch the file it will open up my program, request for a username and password then if the proper username password is supplied my program will then launch the file/program they wished to open.
Any suggestions on what to research would be greatly appreciated!